Comments on: Charlie Papazian, from the ‘beer village’http://www.realbeer.com/blog/?p=893
What part of beer don't you understand?Thu, 12 Feb 2015 03:34:37 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1By: Jason Alstromhttp://www.realbeer.com/blog/?p=893&cpage=1#comment-147860
Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:28:44 +0000http://www.realbeer.com/blog/?p=893#comment-147860Ha! I knew I saw Mark Silva in Denver this year … twice actually. Once at Falling Rock where I was given a hockey-style check from him. Thankfully I’m big and from Boston so I only noticed the hit but was unmoved. The second time was during our epic pub crawl that we do every year in Denver … Mark walked into Great Divide looked at the crowd and walked back out.

Both times he looked all business …

]]>By: Chipper Davehttp://www.realbeer.com/blog/?p=893&cpage=1#comment-146790
Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:00:02 +0000http://www.realbeer.com/blog/?p=893#comment-146790I wonder if Charlie ever thought the GABF would get so big. I can’t imagine how big it could become in another 10-20 years. They would need to build a much bigger convention center to hold all of the beer fans!

I hope that the GABF doesn’t get much bigger (people wise) for a while. It’s crowded now and while most people behaved themselves, I don’t think it could really add many more people and still allow you to wander around easily. Perhaps they could add another day (Sunday afternoon?).

The brewers I talked to seemed a bit concerned that their beer was all disappearing sooner than they expected it to. If they have to end up bringing a lot more beer then it might get a bit too cost prohibitive for them to sign up for next year.

Given the economy, such as it is, I think it will be difficult to keep topping the numbers at the GABF each year.